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SueR posted 20 weeks ago.
Good for you for starting someone off in the sport! People like you are the reason we are all here! We all had someone on our first start line with us.
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prendergi posted 20 weeks ago.
Never be ashamed about the place you are coming in when you are doing the race for fun and introducing someone to the sport! It sounds like a great time!
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TriSooner posted 20 weeks ago.
jtrimom wrote:
I am not sure why on the last 2 turns and at the exit, there were like 4-5 people just freakin waiting!
Because they are poor swimmers. And this is why you should provide on your entry a slightly faster per 100m swim time in serpetine swims. Noobs think, "Oh, 300m? I can do that in, what, 3 minutes?" And then you get stuck at the wall.
jtrimom wrote:
It was a qualifier for AG long course worlds in Perth, Australia, which I was offered, but had to pass on . . .
No kidding. "Gee, thanks for the entry. Now I have to find my way to another continent. Meh. Let someone else."
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kaolelo posted 20 weeks ago.
even though i love the ocean, i always wonder about pool swims. in some ways, it must be nice, but others, not so nice. great job on the race.
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tri-ac posted 20 weeks ago.
cool that you got to meet your new AG nemesis! :) you can spank her next time!
and good job getting another tri addict hooked
i'm envious of your 5k time...good job!
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dr_rios_ec posted 20 weeks ago.
Congratulations!!!!!!
Every event is always a wonderful experience.
I am glad to read that you are doing better after the other day little problem with this heat that is frying us here in Houston.
-Santiago
"Man!! Defeat is worse than dying, cause´you have to live with it" -My Dad
"It ain´t about how hard you can hit...it is how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward"-Rocky Balboa
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jtrimom posted 20 weeks ago.
thanks for the comments, guys. I have never been hungry for 1st place in my ag, but somehow, this sprint made me want it. I signed up for another local sprint labor day weekend.....
Are you doing any local races this season, Dr. Rios?
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groovyjen posted 20 weeks ago.
You are so speedy! I am totally impressed. And you have twice as many kids as I do. Dang!
I think I can, I think I can, I think I can...
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dr_rios_ec posted 20 weeks ago.
Jtrimom:
I thought maybe doind the Sugar Land sprint this summer before going back to Ecuador por a couple of months...but lately I have been concentrating in my running most than anything else, got the ultra running bug, so there is a big one coming in October in Ecuador, so that has been my main focus. I still ride and swim but haven´t thought of actually participating in one.
Did you see it we are getting some rain this evening!!!
But who knows...I might end up doing one...
I´ll see...
-Santiago
"Man!! Defeat is worse than dying, cause´you have to live with it" -My Dad
"It ain´t about how hard you can hit...it is how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward"-Rocky Balboa
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gfd posted 20 weeks ago.
Great race Sharon. An invitation to World's!!!! I am impressed.
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jtrimom posted 20 weeks ago.
gfd wrote:
Great race Sharon. An invitation to World's!!!! I am impressed.
ya, when I got the email, I thought it was a joke, but I looked into it, and although it looked intriguing, I don't have that many frequent flier miles (or time and money), plus I was alreaady signed up for the Longhorn HIM in October which is around the same time. I am glad she took advantage of my roll down :)
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jtrimom posted 20 weeks ago.
dr_rios_ec wrote:
Jtrimom:
I thought maybe doind the Sugar Land sprint this summer before going back to Ecuador por a couple of months...but lately I have been concentrating in my running most than anything else, got the ultra running bug, so there is a big one coming in October in Ecuador, so that has been my main focus. I still ride and swim but haven´t thought of actually participating in one.
Did you see it we are getting some rain this evening!!!
But who knows...I might end up doing one...
I´ll see...
I am going to do the Summertime Blues sprint in Freeport Sept 6. Look into it- it was really fun last year.
Rain! yay- it would be great- even tho my kids are supposed to go to an end of the swim meet season pizza/pool party. We have lived at the pool all of June. Rain will be welcomed (as long as it's not during a long ride/run :)
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GaryTimTim posted 20 weeks ago.
Good Job! I don't know how you Houstonians do it in the heat and humidity...a mid day run at Memorial (after a race!), I can barely stand the heat at 9am when I'm there!
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PJT posted 20 weeks ago.
21.5 MPH on the bike is pretty bad-assed. Congratulations!
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dr_rios_ec posted 20 weeks ago.
jtrimom wrote:
dr_rios_ec wrote:Jtrimom:
I thought maybe doind the Sugar Land sprint this summer before going back to Ecuador por a couple of months...but lately I have been concentrating in my running most than anything else, got the ultra running bug, so there is a big one coming in October in Ecuador, so that has been my main focus. I still ride and swim but haven´t thought of actually participating in one.
Did you see it we are getting some rain this evening!!!
But who knows...I might end up doing one...
I´ll see...I am going to do the Summertime Blues sprint in Freeport Sept 6. Look into it- it was really fun last year.
Rain! yay- it would be great- even tho my kids are supposed to go to an end of the swim meet season pizza/pool party. We have lived at the pool all of June. Rain will be welcomed (as long as it's not during a long ride/run :)
I was thinking about that one a posibility, but also I might be by that time already in Ecuador. Best of luck to you in that one too.
Feels so so so wonderful a little bit of cooling rain here in Houston.
-Santiago
"Man!! Defeat is worse than dying, cause´you have to live with it" -My Dad
"It ain´t about how hard you can hit...it is how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward"-Rocky Balboa
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TonisTri posted 20 weeks ago.
Great RR Sharon. You are so fast! Is that natural talent plus hard work or just plain old hard work??? I have the feeling you will get your AG win this season. Good Luck!
That which does not kill me makes me faster...
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KitKat posted 20 weeks ago.
Congrats on the podium finish!
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*Smile, it does a body good*
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jtrimom posted 20 weeks ago.
TonisTri wrote:
Great RR Sharon. You are so fast! Is that natural talent plus hard work or just plain old hard work??? I have the feeling you will get your AG win this season. Good Luck!
I am not sure I would call it talent. The truth is, I love to train. I have to hold back some days because I am scared to overtrain- so race days are just a treat :)
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kylie posted 20 weeks ago.
Congrats again, and what a great surprise the worlds must have been :)
Miles of Life --- Powered by MarkyV
Short version: 300m swim: 5:36
t1: 1:35
10mi bike: 27:54
t2: 1:13
5k run:23:54
2nd in my ag! yay
Longer version: I wasn't planning on signing up for any sprints this season and just focus on my longer events, but I found a newbie who wanted to train for something specific and so I suggested this one, and felt compelled to do it too.
Got up at 5, had a pb&j sandwich and coffee and headed to the race. Set up transition and realized I was about as far as I could possibly be from the swim exit, and bike and run exits :(.
I went for a 3 mi warmup run and chatted with my 1st timer friend. It was a pool swim and I was # 37 (in a dual start) so once it started, it went fast. Two guys passed me at about 175m, and I was okay with it b/c I was swimming in their drafts the whole rest of the time, but REALLY irritated at the wall b/c there was traffic for some reason, people were stopped and trying to push off. I am not sure why on the last 2 turns and at the exit, there were like 4-5 people just freakin waiting!..hence my sad swim time :(
My bike went by thankfully uneventfully. I passed a few people and got passed twice (by very aero fitted people- so they paid for the speed :)
My run was also uneventful till the last 1/2 mi or so. This girl ran up to me and I asked if she was my competition. She was. AAAArg! We chatted a while. We were both wearing the cap from the Galveston HIM I did in April so I asked her how she did. She said she got 6th. I had gotten 5th. (It was a qualifier for AG long course worlds in Perth, Australia, which I was offered, but had to pass on for financial and family reasons.) She said she took it because I rolled it down to her. I was so psyched. It was so cool to see someone who took the opportunity!. Anyway, I figured, she was #67 and already had a couple minutes on me, so even tho we sprinted to the finish, she finished like 2 minutes ahead of me.
All in all, it was a great race. I was proud (of him) and a little ashamed (of myself) that my 1st timer friend beat me by a whole 1:20, but hopefully that will keep him doing it (b/c that means I have a steady training partner :)
After the award ceremony, I went to Memorial Park at 11 am (read :100 degrees) and ran 6 mi, went home, showered, ate, and spent the rest of the afternoon in the heat at my daughter's last swim meet.
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